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Cameo Jewelry : Ring Featuring a Roman Cameo Depicting the Head of Zeus Ammon
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Ring Featuring a Roman Cameo Depicting the Head of Zeus Ammon - FJ.6558
Origin: Eastern Mediterranean
Circa: 100
AD
to 300
AD
Collection: Jewelry
Medium: Agate, Gold
Additional Information: The cameo is set in a modern 18 Karat gold ring.
Location: UAE
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This cameo is set in an 18 Karat gold ring.
Ammon is the Hellenized name of the great god
of Egyptian Thebes, and thus identified with
Zeus, the chief divinity of Greece. The Greek
poet Pindar (born c. 518 H.C.) was the first lo
compose a hymn to Zeus Ammon, and the cult
attracted the interest of other great writers of the
ancient world including Herodotus and Plutarch.
The particular personification of the god, with
ram’s horns, appears on coins from Cyrene (early
5t;h century RC.), similar in style to the image on
this superb intaglio. The god's elegant profile is
surrounded by a luxuriant growth of hair in
waves around the laurel wreath, flowing in curls
down the back as if i1J. a continuous stream into
the lush curly beard. This sense of continuous
movement and rhythm is heightened by the
spirals of the ram' s horn. This image conforms
to the idea of Zeus in his role as 'father',
watching over his mortal children from the lofty
summit of Mount Olympus.
- (FJ.6558)
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